While Skanderbeg offers an appropriate tribute to the heroes of D Day, not everyone is commemorating the day the same way. If you click over to Google for example, you’ll find an unusual and unexpected tribute:
I can conceive of Google choosing not to pay tribute to the heroes who saved freedom, and who bravely gave their lives. But it’s stunning that they could decide not to commemorate the sacrifice of D Day, and instead to celebrate to 25 years of Tetris – a game that no one has played in 10 years, anyway.
Warner Todd Huston has thoughts on this over at Newsbusters as well.
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USNJIMRET (Diary) Saturday, June 6th at 3:37PM EST (link)“…conceive of Google choosing not to pay tribute to the heroes who saved freedom, and who bravely gave their lives.”
Then you are a better man then I.
For it is beyond my comprehension that D-Day, and all the REAL sacrifice that phrase contains, isn’t a National Day of Remembrance.
Here in the USA as well as a whole bunch of European Countries.
It is often said that one of mankind’s greatest abilities, and curses, is his ability to deny reality.
The men of 6 June 1944 saved, SAVED, Civilization.
Without their sacrifice, by the thousands, I don’t doubt for a second that the first A bomb would not have been dropped on Japan.
And that would have made today’s world far, far different.
Doodle is not a "tribute"
ampla Saturday, June 6th at 10:19PM EST (link)Google Doodles are not “tributes” but instead feature fun and interesting topics, often technology related.
Calling it a “tribute” is a distortion.
G'bye
Neil Stevens (Diary) Saturday, June 6th at 10:27PM EST (link)It’s clear all you’re here to do is leave worthless naysaying posts.
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Google isn't the only culprit
nilram (Diary) Saturday, June 6th at 3:43PM EST (link)Wikipedia’s “On this Day..” box includes such notable things as “1933 – The first ever drive-in theater ” but for 1944 nothing.
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
–Douglas MacArthur
To be fair, D-Day did make "Today's featured picture"
TNJim (Diary) Saturday, June 6th at 3:56PM EST (link)Still though, it was a much more significant event than the 6 mentioned under “On This Day”.
A drive-in? The YMCA?
Geez…
Ixquick.com is my answer to google
olsmithie (Diary) Saturday, June 6th at 8:10PM EST (link)They also don’t track your info as google.
Unlike google,
I salute those heroes fallen and passed and the few still living who sacrificed for our freedoms.
Regards
I use that too
molybdanthan (Diary) Saturday, June 6th at 8:19PM EST (link)Though I can’t speak to what they do or don’t track. I want to believe they don’t, but how does anyone know.
Google does appear to keep track of everything, so the story goes. The ‘why’ is something they’ve never been forced to answer.
Google makes big bucks selling info
olsmithie (Diary) Saturday, June 6th at 8:25PM EST (link)The other guys have a very distinct privacy policy, that the EU and others have declared real.
Looks trustworthy to me. (i.e. they have me fooled, at least!)
http://ixquick.com/eng/protect_privacy.html
Regards
Good to know
molybdanthan (Diary) Saturday, June 6th at 8:33PM EST (link)Competition is a great thing. Google, spying, is not.
Thanks for the heads-up
TNJim (Diary) Saturday, June 6th at 9:39PM EST (link)olsmithie and molybdanthan about ixquick. I’ll give it a try.
Google wqas founded and is run by a couple of piss ant liberal jerks.
Tbone (Diary) Saturday, June 6th at 8:23PM EST (link)I hope Microsoft gets them just like it got Netscape.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
But it's Microsoft that put the MS
molybdanthan (Diary) Saturday, June 6th at 8:31PM EST (link)in MSNBC. How is one liberal company better than two?
Ah, do the math. nt
Tbone (Diary) Saturday, June 6th at 11:45PM EST (link)Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
Microsoft sold all but 18% of MSNBC in 2005
Chris_64 Sunday, June 7th at 11:25AM EST (link)Steve Ballmer has also stated that he regrets ever launching the network. Also, if you look at the company’s contributions (as well as those of Gates himself), they are far more moderate than those of Google, which is clearly a left-wing outfit. Gates’ father was even well-known in Washington State Republican circles.
Microsoft's Bing.com does memorialize...
Patrick_Murdock (Diary) Saturday, June 6th at 9:05PM EST (link)D-Day…… It’s front page has a picture of Normandy beach with links you can find embedded within the picture that makes note of our soldiers sacrifice and the importance of the day.
I still use google the most for search but for some time now my home page is bing.com (or live.com before it changed) just because it does make not of such important dates….
http://www.patrickscartoons.com
I played Tetris just last month
Finrod (Diary) Saturday, June 6th at 9:40PM EST (link)I’ve got the ROM of the Atari arcade videogame, plus I have The Next Tetris on the Playstation (best version of Tetris out there that I’ve found), plus I’ve played xtris on various Unix platforms (multiplayer networked tetris, you can play against as many humans and computers as you have screen room).
I realize that Tetris’s anniversary shares a day with D-Day, but don’t fault Google for honoring one of the simplest but most playable video games ever to be written.
Let’s get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?
We might do well to remember the maker of tetris
molybdanthan (Diary) Saturday, June 6th at 9:56PM EST (link)Alexey Pajitnov. And of how the Soviets took everything he got as a result of his invention, such as ownership rights, money from sales, etc.
Agree with all of it
Jeff Walden (Diary) Sunday, June 7th at 12:07AM EST (link)Tetris is definitely up among the most important computer games of all time, and that it’s still played today (and widely copied/reimplemented even twenty-five years later) says a lot about its staying power. The logos have always more been about more or less esoteric technological recognitions than about famous historical events (outside of current, well-known and well-celebrated holidays), and it doesn’t surprise me they’d recognize Tetris.
Really, the doodles are just whimsical little diversions from the normal logo; why do we have to have such a chip on our shoulders over the ones they recognize or don’t recognize each year? I agree it’s somewhat depressing that by appearances they recognize some holidays more than others in an attempt to avoid offending anyone with flourishes that are just that — but that says more about the sorry state of some parts of society than it does about Google. They’re acting rationally, and to be honest, if I were running their business I would probably make about the same decisions in this respect, at least not so strongly different as to really disagree with the choices they’ve made.
sure Finrod, "simple and playable" are equally the match of thousands of deaths for the freedom of others. nt
Doc Holliday (Diary) Sunday, June 7th at 12:10AM EST (link)nt
Molon Labe!
Ehh what you can you do, part of fighting to keep freedom alive in the world
Joliphant (Diary) Sunday, June 7th at 2:31PM EST (link)Included people’s freedom to be imbeciles.
While on the 6th my response was they have done it again, my usual response to google doodles is just what have they chosen to slight this time.
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777